Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Durant and Chrysler quarreled. In 1920 Willys- Overland which had just gone on the post-War rocks hired Chrysler to pull it off. Then Maxwell Motor came to him with another salvage job. Maxwell had only 50 active dealers, had 26,000 unsold cars piling up demurrage in freight yards all across the country, had $20,000,000 in debts. By the time Chrysler had rehabilitated Maxwell, it was his company. In 1924 he brought out his first car under his own name, a car with a high speed motor, low slung, built for traffic. It caught public fancy...
...train, a freight, stopped 200 yd. beyond the crossing. Two bodies were on the cowcatcher. The rest were strewn along the tracks behind. Three of Widow Smith's children and three others were killed instantly. The fourth Smith child and three others died on the way to a hospital. All the rest were badly hurt...
...some of them have unbent sufficiently to go to their customers instead of waiting for their customers to come to them. Led by Pennsylvania R. R., a group of eastern carriers went to their customers last week with a collection and delivery service for less-than-carload-lot (l.c.l.) freight shipments...
Southwestern roads have been calling for l.c.l. freight at the shipper's door, delivering it at the consignee's door for two years. Store-door service has been widely used in New England and the South, is standard service in Britain and eastern Canada...
...territory. New York Central, Pennsylvania's traditional rival, led 16 other big eastern roads in a mighty howl of protest to the I. C. C. They failed to agree with Pennsylvania's William Wallace Atterbury that store-door service was the only way to wean back l.c.l. freight now in the hands of truckers. They doubted that the service would be worth its cost. But they were sure that if Pennsylvania and its allies were permitted to start the service, all other eastern carriers would have to meet the competition. Pennsylvania, argued the opposing roads, was in effect...